this year's judges were rachel luis snyder the chair, hall, and david troyer. roxana astoria wins the first awardfor we were once a family . the murder suicide and system failure of our kids. she's an independent investigative journalist focused on the child protection and criminal legal systems and and a native of las vegas the judges citation reads tracing the devastating story about hard families shocking murder suicide after the children's adoptive mother's wrote the entire family off astoria and moving portrait of lost lives and failed systems but with an ever present lens on pop poverty and racism the investigation eliminates the innumerable ways child welfare agencies fafailed the six young black children and indicts the ways the most vulnerable among us are in peril. binary systems created to protect them congratulations . [applause] >> okay. the second work in progress award goes to mae young for the life: sex work and love in america.t she is a reporter at vanity fair.her reporting has received the south asian journalists award. judges citations. care

this year's judges were rachel luis snyder thehe chair, paul ad david. roxana wins a first award for we were once a family per the hard murder suicide the system failing our kids. she is an independent investigative journalist focused on the child protection and criminal legal systems in the native of lasas vegas. the judge isva citation reads, tracing the devastating story of the families a shocking murder/suicide after the adoptive mothers drove the entire family off its california cliff. spaints a moving portrait of lot lives and failed systems. with an ever present lens on poverty and racism investigations illuminates the innumerable ways child welfare agencies failed the six youngng black children and indicts the ways the most vulnerable among us are imperiled by the very systems created to protect them. congratulations roxana. [applause] [applause] [background noises] okay, the second work and progress toward the life,, work, love in america. reporter of vanity fair reporting fromin afghanistan has received the south asian journalists association d